Robe Clover

For my 1st Papercut piece, I chose the Clover dress or rather blouse, mainly for its panels highlighting the bust that also bring originality and « rock chic » style. Indeed, once cut (pity for the 50 cm of fabric), I realized that the flared skirt did not fit my style. 
And to highlight the fabric and yoke, I decided to design a bi fabrics dress with a straight cut skirt, on the same principle as my Must Have dress.

Level : Intermediate – Timing : 4 hours – Cost : €€ 

During my last shopping at Bennytex (for those who missed this enormous deal extraordinary, click here;)), this print is obvious regarding the fluidity which matched perfectly with the pattern. 

Also, it was not easy to handle indeed yokes require to coincide print … Not easy I spent one hour ((And it occurred to me to insert black through which to promote these 2 « V » and mitigate pattern continuity;))) for optimum support of the bias, I inserted the two panels inside the bias, then posed and sewn to the next piece. 

This is the main difficulty if you opt for a main plain fabric matched with a different fabric. 
Scissors in hands, I decided to limit it to a blouse while remaining on the idea of a dress BUT straight cut for the skirt. After a search from my range of fabrics, I took out 50 cm black neoprene with a thickness of 0.5 cm by The Sweet Mercrerie (used on my Aydan dress) so there is a balance of two materials and to achieve a fluidity of the dress as a whole. 

Final personal touch, I flared more neck to remind the two « V » of the bust. 

Tips: 
Adjust the blouse and skirt: I made a straight cut skirt and added two folds at the front and rear so as to coincide with the width of the gown. In addition, I gathered the bottom of the blouse to adjust the best two parts. 
Again, the key success of the bi-material is the selection of two fabrics thickness almost equivalent to achieve optimum support. 

Pattern: Clover blouse – Papercut pattern ($ 17 pdf format and $ 25 paper format) 
Note that this pattern is large size model indeed the UK8 conforms to a UK10. 

Fabric : Viscose printed – 60inx 55in Width – BENNYTEX – Bobigny (93) – black neoprene (0,5 thick) 1m x 14in width – The Sweet Mercerie